His gaze cuts back to Clark at that flat tone. (You can be in France in ten seconds, Kal-El.)
"I do," Bruce says. "Because it'll be easier to learn if you focus on what you're doing, instead of on trying not kill your instructor by accident."
Awful convincing, coming from the only person to get into a proper knock-down drag-out with Superman and live. It's unthinkable, actually, that Bruce would be so reckless as to put Clark in a position to slip up and hurt him; he's too smart for that, a hundred times over, and if he doesn't care about his own safety he definitely cares about the other man's psychological well-being. But he's banking on Clark's opinion of him being too low to guess that.
His heartbeat has nearly slowed back into its usual, sedate evenness, the fluster of a moment ago evaporated (or rigidly controlled). It's embarrassing enough as it is - he doesn't need Clark to know.
"And you should get to know her a bit, anyway."
From the edge of the building, Bruce tosses his empty beer bottle towards an abused-looking dumpster wedged against brick. Thunk, clink. Three points.
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"I do," Bruce says. "Because it'll be easier to learn if you focus on what you're doing, instead of on trying not kill your instructor by accident."
Awful convincing, coming from the only person to get into a proper knock-down drag-out with Superman and live. It's unthinkable, actually, that Bruce would be so reckless as to put Clark in a position to slip up and hurt him; he's too smart for that, a hundred times over, and if he doesn't care about his own safety he definitely cares about the other man's psychological well-being. But he's banking on Clark's opinion of him being too low to guess that.
His heartbeat has nearly slowed back into its usual, sedate evenness, the fluster of a moment ago evaporated (or rigidly controlled). It's embarrassing enough as it is - he doesn't need Clark to know.
"And you should get to know her a bit, anyway."
From the edge of the building, Bruce tosses his empty beer bottle towards an abused-looking dumpster wedged against brick. Thunk, clink. Three points.